Canada

A 19-year-old Edmonton man who kidnapped, dismembered and cooked the cat of a friend he mistakenly believed had stolen his iPad was given 10 months in jail Tuesday.

An Edmonton couple is calling for beefed up security on school buses after their six-year-old son was beaten up by another student.

A CN freight train carrying dangerous goods derailed in central Saskatchewan on Tuesday and caught fire. CN spokesman Jim Feeny says three locomotives were pulling 100 cars when some of them went off the rails.

After two days of debate and opposition at home, the Canadian Parliament adopted the Conservative government’s motion to join airstrikes in Iraq, committing Canada to a more robust role in the fight against the Islamic State, the group known as ISIS or ISIL.

Sarah Leung has been sentenced to five years in prison for killing her newborn sons in 2009 and 2010. Leung was sentenced in court in Vancouver on Tuesday to 18 months for killing one child and 42 months for killing the other, minus 50 days for time served. Her sentence also requires her to report any time she becomes pregnant …

An Australian woman charged after falsely claiming to be sex trafficking and exploitation victim has been identified by Calgary Police as 26-year old Samantha Lyndell Azzopardi. Calgary Police have taken the unusual measure of releasing the woman’s photo in an effort to determine movements of the accused while she was in Calgary prior to her arrest.

Police were unable to determine how a Chinese exchange student fell into the grip of his killer, Luka Rocco Magnotta, despite pouring over 7,000 photographs and computer files in the course of their murder probe.

The 18-year-old ringleader of a teen pimping ring is the product of a turbulent upbringing and the court should send her to rehab instead of prison, her lawyer argued at a sentencing hearing Monday.

A New Brunswick Mountie who made national headlines for smoking medical marijuana while in uniform last year has been found dead. Francis’s lawyer T.J. Burke confirmed in an email to The Canadian Press that Francis was found dead on Monday.

An explosion was reported at the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus on Monday morning, two are reported injured.

Canada is one of the top spots in the world for job seekers who are setting their sights abroad. The U.S., the U.K. and Canada are the world’s most popular country destinations for job seekers, a Boston Consulting Group global survey of more than 200,000 people released Sunday showed.